Tarnished Mirror Poem

Shabbychatue

Over in the Garden, Kerry challenged us to write a Sonnet. Two famous poets who write Sonnets: Petrache and Pablo Neruda.  I broke rules and tried to follow more of a Pablo Neruda poem-but it didn't come out, as I hoped.  I might let it steep and try again.  I started out in the traditional sense with rhyme. I liked it, but had to  count syllables to make it work.   Even though I broke the rules-I am okay with what I am sharing. 

It is odd, because the direction I was headed in also aligns with another theme. 

I'm curious what do you think it is about?

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TARNISHED MIRROR

Day dreamer what lifts haze off the coast of your prow?

Milky Way poured into your delicate bone china cup

envoy conveys tradition into Earl Grey's mood

Steeped memories on a salty sea of blue

dance like clouds lifting and twirling their skirts

Mourning gray dove soars proud- there's land ahead

as black infused clouds roll into tepid view 

High tea mood composed in botanical rain

as notable White Crowned Sparrow pecks the tea tray

morning Zen opens like a shiny quartz rose

later moon sails tilt-reflecting their silver polished leaf

Tempered English ghost your guide:

blue whale migrates by small barrier reef

light ripples as winking stars warn over exposure

Tarnished mirror an ancestral thief

© Ellen Wilson